Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Indigofera australis subsp. australis

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Paddys River Road, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, near Nowra

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common name

Austral indigo, Australian indigo

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and rocky areas. Widespread.

Notes

Shrub to about 2.5m tall. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-10 cm long, compound, with 5-25 leaflets, each 0.4-4 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, entire, usually sparsely hairy above, hairy below, tips blunt, usually with a small straight mucro. Flowers 6-7 mm in diameter, pea-shaped, with five petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, pink to mauve. Standard petal 7-9 mm long. Flower clusters mostly 6-15 cm long, of 5-many flowers. Flowers Sep.–Nov.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNETdescription:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Indigofera~australis  (accessed 16 April 2021)